scope:

This standard defines a set of tools for efficient coding of immersive visual content, as well as the corresponding decoding and reconstructing procedure. The immersive visual content includes, but is not limited to, panorama video, free-view video, light field, and three-dimensional (3D) model and other kinds of synthetic visual contents. The coding efficiency is measured by counting the data rates under target visual quality of immersive visual content.

Purpose

This standard provides efficient coding tool sets for compression, decompression, and reconstructing of the immersive visual content data. The target applications and services include, but are not limited to, virtual reality, such as unmanned aerial vehicle-based virtual reality (VR), augmented reality, panorama video, freeview TV, panoramic stereo video, and other video-/audio-enabled services and applications, such as immersive video streaming, broadcasting, storage, and communication.